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 Stories About: climate AND climate change adaptation AND climate change impacts AND climate equity AND environmental justice
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Not just an environmental issue
Climate change is as much a social priority as an environmental concern |
Alan Durning |
25 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Climate change is a universal menace, threatening hardships for everyone. But it's not an egalitarian menace: everyone will not suffer equally. Perversely, those people and nations least to blame for causing it are most vulnerable to its impacts. Climate disruption heaps misfortune on the less fortunate, whether in low-lying Bangladesh, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, or the flood plains around Chehalis, Wash. In the aftermath of climate change, the less you have, the ... |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, climate equity, environmental justice, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics) |
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